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Any of the National Instruments boards (except the DEC MicroVax board) can beused with the cib.o file.National Instruments GPIB on linuxconfig file:PC_GPIBPC = device_namePC_GPIBPC_L = device_nameedconf interfaces screen:GPIB DEVICE ADDR TYPEYES /dev/gpib0/masterNational Instruments GPIBYES /dev/gpib0/masterNat Inst GPIB (shared)On linux platforms, there is a freely available GPIB driver for National Instrumentsboards available by anonymous ftp from the site koala.chemie.fu-berlin.de in thedirectory /pub/linux/LINUX-LAB/IEEE488. That driver should be installed andconfigured according to the documentation in the driver package. Note, however,that the DMA option in the driver installation should not be selected, as the implementationof DMA in the driver is notoriously flakey. The only part of the driverpackage needed by spec is the driver/gpib0.o module. spec does not use any of theapplication library included with the driver package. The file /etc/gpib.conf associatedwith the application library, soalso is not used by and does not influence spec.Also, spec communicates with the driver directly through the /dev/gpib0/masterdevice node. No other device nodes are used.National Instruments GPIB-ENETconfig file:PC_GPIBPC5 = hostnamePC_GPIBPC5_L = hostnameedconf interfaces screen:GPIB DEVICE ADDR TYPEYES gpib0 Nat Inst GPIB-ENETYES gpib0 Nat Inst GPIB-ENET (shared)spec must be linked with the National Instruments cib.o module that comes with theGPIB ethernet device. On the edconf interfaces screen, enter the name of the boardas indicated by the National Instruments ibconf utility.INTERIM WORK-IN-PROGRESS (8/16/01) NOT FOR GENERAL DISTRIBUTION HARDWARE REFERENCE 221